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2023 In Review
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Jan 1, 2024

October 2023

I Don't Care About American Censorship
It's the end of the Gutenberg Parenthesis as we know it, and I feel fine
Oct 19, 2023

September 2023

Bowie's Bookshelf
Why do book lists feel like a bigger deal than other personal lists?
Sep 27, 2023
The Peasant Humanists of the Italian Renaissance
The Cheese & the Worms & Peasant Reading Cultures
Sep 12, 2023

August 2023

Hwaet We Want From Anglo-Saxon Translation
Should we translate Old English like a foreign language, or honor its weirdness?
Aug 21, 2023
Magic Writing At The Hobbit Post Office
Magic versus prose in Tolkien's novels
Aug 1, 2023

July 2023

The Kentucky Hobbit Hypothesis
Why do we care about finding the "real" Middle Earth?
Jul 14, 2023
I Played that Medieval Manuscript Video Game
Fonts and fates in Pentiment
Jul 8, 2023

June 2023

Do Goodreads Reviews Even Matter for Sales?
Eat, Pray, Love, but for early modern Orthodox schismatic sects
Jun 29, 2023
So You Want to Invent a Writing System
Of Orcs and Orthography
Jun 23, 2023
The Story of the German-Uzbek Mennonites in Three Books
(As gleaned from a fourth book, Sofia Samatar's The White Mosque)
Jun 14, 2023
May Links
Punctuation, Penisland.net, and PEN problems
Jun 1, 2023
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